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December 21st, 2009
The nine Spanish provinces of La Rioja, Navarra, Burgos, León, Palencia, Soria, Huesca, Zaragoza and Teruel are on alert for the "high risk" of snow, according to the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET). However, the AEMET announced that the heavy snowfalls that have occurred recently will soon give way to rain ...
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December 23rd, 2009
According to data from the National Association of Motor Vehicle Sellers (GANVAM), 190 million euros is lost every year due to the abandonment of vehicles at garages in Spain. In the last year alone, 75,000 cars were left unclaimed at repair centers by their owners. 90% of abandoned vehicles are priced ...
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December 30th, 2009
Ferrari sporting director Stefano Domenicali says the arrival of the Spanish driver Fernando Alonso to Ferrari has boosted the whole team. In an interview with Italian newspaper La Stampa published today, Domenicali has said that Alonso, who visited Ferrari's headquarters twice in the last month, "calls every day to check
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December 31st, 2009
2009 is the sixth consecutive year there has been a decrease in the number of deaths by road traffic accidents, and the first to drop below 3,000 deaths, according to the Association for the Study of Spinal Cord Injuries (AESLEME), published in ' Balance of Road Safety 2009 '. 1969 was ...
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January 7th, 2010
The bad weather is continuing in Spain with a total of eleven autonomous regions now on orange alert (significant risk) for snowfall and freezing temperatures, as predicted by the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET). In particular, Aragon, Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Madrid, Navarra, Valencia, Galicia,
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January 7th, 2010
The General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) has announced that fifty-five people were killed on Spanish roads since the start of a special operation launched to help save lives over the Christmas period. The operation was considered to be encouraging since, although
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January 15th, 2010
Fernando Alonso, in his first appearance before the press as a Ferrari driver, said that the Italian team that he will compete for over the next three years will be his last team in Formula 1. "At the end of 2009, I was in no position to fight for
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January 18th, 2010
A driver aged 59 offered two traffic police officers 200 euros, promising more if required, in an attempt to get them remove four fines imposed on him. The fines amounted to a total of €2,615 and the man, who wielded several 100 euros bills and attempted to offer them repeatedly ...
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January 20th, 2010
The Spanish driver Pedro Martínez de la Rosa has been announced as the second driver of the BMW Sauber team for the 2010 World Formula 1 championship, which kicks off on March 14th with the Bahrain Grand Prix. This was confirmed by the director of the team, Peter Sauber, who ...
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January 28th, 2010
Last night in Premia de Dalt, Barcelona, local police arrested a man who had driven for 26 kilometres in the wrong direction on the C-35, between Vidreres and Llagostera, with an alcohol level three times that
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